Hey Coast, can you please keep your online advertising within the designated adspace? It is bad enough when the top and right of my screen are flashing like a VLT, but it is especially annoying when that stupid golfer gets in my way.
Not only do I not want to buy the product being advertised it is lowering my enjoyment of your website, so both of you are losing. Don’t let these ads drag you down with them. Say “No” to in-your-face advertising.
—This Space for Rent
This article appears in May 7-13, 2009.
http://www.thecoast.ca/LovetheWayWeBitch/a…
^^^ …9th comment onward. 🙂 ^^^
…but yes, maybe the Coast should stop this at the source.
Again. AdBlock Plus. Best extension for Firefox ever. At least till they make it illegal.
If only they had it for safari.
I second the Doctor, and it works on Safari, too.
No-script for firefox is also awesome. You can block specific javascript elements on the page. I can’t surf without it now. I haven’t had a popup or intrusive ad in 2 years.
Also flashblock. It puts a play button on flash elements so you only play what element you want.
Fever: Just tried AdBlock – the internet seems so quiet its eerie.
NO!
Crazy, eh? I can’t live without it anymore. Not to mention too, it’ll make browsing quicker. You should pick up Ghostery too. That little gem shows you what information gathering service each website uses.
I use quite a few Firefox extensions, but NoScript (the one I linked to the discussion of) is the only one I would consider essential.
Well…that and Tab Mix Plus so I can have a hundreds of tabs open at once.
I just added Ghostery. …simple, and I like.
Thanks, Dr. Fever.
No worries. Just good to know who is looking at your info. ABP and StumbleUpon are my essentials.
Imagine that, in a free enterprise system, a free weekly has advertisement. Even worse they have advertisement on their site which is free to access. Shame, shame on them.
K guys (Dino, Three) where can you get the safari version? I tried downloading the FF version and it won’t work on safari…actually, it wouldn’t even open at all and I HAVE FF.
haven’t seen that golf guy in a while….
Very nice….
Yup firefox still outroks ’em all..and I use and test them all LOL! I also use a FF extension which tells you the origin of the page you are on..Eg; the Coast hosts on an American server..probably the parent companies’ server.
Don’t get all up in their grill about AD’s. They know you can block them with a click or setting, so they don’t want to hear ludite whining. Ad’s is how they stay afloat, and provide this free service. If they cut back on the adverts, they would slide beneath the waves of the brutally competitve world, which is the WWW. Thats is how this virtual world works. You would not pay for an online subscription, so unless you can suggest a better way, just block away, and have some understanding on the way e-commerce works.
Hey Kitty, here’s a link: http://burgersoftware.com/en/safariadblock.
Actually this was my bitch written out of frustration when I visited 3 sites in a row with those new get-in-your way ads. I have been testing out Chrome for my browser and the adBlocker options are limited. I guess I’ll go back to firefox afterall.
Either way, my point wasn’t that Ads are bad…just these new types of ads on webpages that cover up the links and the text that I am interested in. I can ignore ads in little boxes. Also, not everyone has adblockers installed, as you can tell by several of the comments on here by people who JUST installed them.
My other point, was that I think it does a disservice to the Coast (or any website) to run ads that interfere with the usability and enjoyment of a website. I guess I am suggesting what Dogma did…cut the annoying ads from the source. Then I don’t have to turn on adblocker and I will see and possibly click on the less obtrusive ads.